Paul Rosenthal, whose violinistic pedigree reads to string players like a list of rare wines: Dorothy Delay, Ivan Galamian and Jascha Heifetz (whose unrealized American dream was that people would address him simply as «Joe»), is in town to bring the great Russian composer Sergei Taneyev to the world's ears at Bargemusic this Friday. Rosenthal, inspired by David Oistrakh's performance, was the first American to perform the Shostakovich Violin Concerto (in New York, many years ago)!
That and
his amazing capacity for the enjoyment of vodka (where does he put it, in his leg?) and literature brought him naturally enough to the Samovar last night. If you miss Rosenthal's old-fashioned violin recital program (with the elegant Doris Stevenson at the piano) on Friday, try for the chamber music program Saturday and/or Sunday, in which he will be matched up-bow staccato for up-bow staccato by the inimitable (and need we say Russian?) Mark Peskanov, the quartet rounded out by Stevenson and cellist Jeffrey Solow.
The cherry was good, but the cranberry delightful!
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